Elizabeth Karavanas holds Sammy, one of her two cats, in her room at the emergency shelter at the Stony Point Center in November. / Seth Harrison/The Journal News

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STONY POINT — Elizabeth Karavanas, 56, of Stony Point has been displaced from her mobile home since it was flooded in Superstorm Sandy.

The damage to her home, which she bought 11 years ago for about $39,000, was so severe that it’s not worth fixing, she said. Fixing up her home would cost at least $60,000, three times as much money as the Federal Emergency Management Agency gave her for repairs. She’s looking into a replacement trailer for a different mobile home.

Karavanas stayed at Stony Point Center for about six weeks after the storm and lived in a hotel until mid-January, trying to figure out what to do next. She moved into an apartment in Stony Point, getting rental assistance from FEMA. As the grant expired in April, she’s now seeking to qualify for further federal rental assistance, she said.

Because Karavanas still owns the damaged trailer that sits on one of the lots at Ba Mar Mobile Home Park, she’s been required to pay the lot rent, $845 a month, by the park’s owner. But she stopped the payment in December because she was told by longtime Ba Mar residents that at least four homes that occupied the same lot in the past got flooded, she said.

“If my area is not livable, why should I be responsible for the lot rent?” Karavanas said.

Because of unpaid rent, Karavanas and a few other Ba Mar homeowners have been sued by the trailer park’s owner. The cases are pending in Stony Point Town Court.

David Hale of Newbury Management Co., which manages Ba Mar Mobile Home Park, did not return phone messages seeking comment.

Her struggle since the storm has taken an emotional toll, Karavanas said.

“I don’t want to get depressed or anxious where I can’t function. When you have to fight, you need to function,” she said. “But everything that’s been happening after the storm is wearing me down.”